Irrational Number Line Games, LLC

Welcome

Welcome to Irrational Number Line Games' little home on the web!
We hope to become a comfortable stop in the eternal journey
for that perfect wargaming experience. Tutorials, examples, and
templates abound on the Internet, many with lots of tips for
high end details. Our main effort is providing examples, ideas, and
suggestions for the regular wargamer. Nothing wrong with high end
stuff. We love it and we buy tons of it. But there's also nothing
wrong with finding ways to do good, solid work without investing
every spare hour in detailomania.

Our forté is simple, cheap, yet (surprisingly?) robust aids for wargaming.
Tools, games, scenarios, swag, advice, examples, experience, philosophical musings,
resources, hints, tips, miscelanea. We will both provide our own (some for free,
some for sale) and point you to others' (some for sale, some for free). And we
hope (again) to help wargamers who stop by to share, trade, and learn.

30 OCT 2013 : A few more Mon Calamari acquired means a few more
space goldfish conversions. Using different bodies
to explore balancing commonality and distinction in modeling. Light infantry
to go with the
heavy infantry
and
mechs
we already have.

27 OCT 2013 : Yet more pig conversions.
This time, using some more realistic looking pigs
as source material.

24 AUG 2013 : OK ... we've been lazy on updates and ideas. So
we're trying to fix that. These are both simple ones, yet a lot of fun to
look at:

04 AUG 2013 : We have a new game system.
Path of Bones is a Classical Asian warfare game for large sides of minis (200-500).
But true to INLGames' mantra, it still plays fast and furious.

20 JUL 2013 : We've released a new QILS supplement -
Saga of the Death Cult! This is a century spanning set of scenarios that pit you
against (or as) the Death Cult - an ancient cult of death worshippers that struggle against
the powers that be as well as their own gods.

13 JUL 2013 : And to keep the variety up ..
a train! With a little discourse on
function versus form.

30 JUN 2013 : A little terrain this time. I used a few
cheap nick-nack dust collecting buddah decorations to make some nice
28mm statues for my
ruin terrain boards.

23 JUN 2013 : Two pretty much unrelated project on display this week.
But they have a common theme of being
bit-mashes - figures put together from a large number
of different parts from different things.

20 MAY 13 : You might remember the various and sundry
conversions of Gnome Wars figures we did a while back:

Well, we finally got around to finishing some stuff off, so the Mexicagnomes
now have some
cavalry to help them out.

21 APR 13 : A colleague and fellow wargamer voiced his displeasure with
people using Lego products for games. While I can't argue with taste, he went on
to say that you can't make decent looking terrain from Legos.
We disagree!

12 APR 13 : A month ago we did some bugmen. Now we
have a suitable home for them -
a giant bug hive!

05 APR 13 : Here is a nice terrain, big terrain piece that will
fill your table but not empty your wallet.
The Crashed Flying Saucer! Appropriate for many types
of scifi and pulp campaign.

28 MAR 13 : We thought it was time for a scenario again, so
here is a good ol' romp on the tabletop ...
Rednecks and Revenuers!!

02 FEB 13 : What is better than zombies or dinosaurs? Obviously,
zombies that are dinosaurs! We have a new QILS supplement
Zombiesaurus Rex vs. Tricerinator.
No, really. The dinos at your prehistoric park have become zombies and
now your only hope is the conversion of an animatronic dinosaur into
an undead killing machine.

And in conjunction with this supplement, we are sponsoring a
Contest
to win a giant (well, giant in 28mm scale) zombie dinosaur!

Or, if you prefer to make your own zombie dinosaurs, we have a tutorial on
how we make ours.

26 JAN 13 : This was a fun little project - making an
unspeakable horror
from beyond the pale of reason. Specifically, a mini-shoggoth. Since
thousands of mile long, even at 28mm, is a bit bigger than my table,
I went with a 6" segment.

11 JAN 13 : Moving from the small to the large, here are some
28mm giant conversions
using GW giant heads. These bits are very nice, plentiful, and cheap.
But the giant bodies are expensive. Fortunately other giant bodies, arms,
and accessories are cheap, even if the heads are not so nice. Hmmmm...

04 JAN 13 : Ah! While I love thinking through projects
and seeing what can be done
with this or that (or both together), this is actually a "found project".
Instead of clever in its application, it is elegant in its simplicity. So ...
how do you make a vat of
human flesh goo..?

31 DEC 12 : I was browsing around 1d4chan
(yes -- not the best source, but quick and easy to read without
linking through to 100 other pages just to figure out what is
being said) looking for some
40K background to use to finish out some Space Marines I had acquired
then not needed for a project, when I stumbled across the entry for
Malal. Springing from this
I actually learned something useful about this bit of 40K stuff
and decided to outfit
some figures
for Malal.

30 DEC 12 : Well, we've been a bit slack posting miniature ideas
the last couple of months. But we have been working. Here is a dump of
several related projects for Gnome Wars:

... and there are still some cavalry forces coming! Soon. I hope. :)

08 DEC 12 : This is a pretty simple little project but it shows
a couple of key things about human perception and how to use a bit of
psychology in figure design. This is one my my
continuing characters
,
le Compte du Masque

06 DEC 12 : Here's another comission job. I really like this one. The
charge was "make a bunch of horror tentacle stuff". Then the customer picked the
ones he liked. I had a fun time, and he got
these
!

04 DEC 12 : Even though we haven't posted Ideas of the Week
very regularly the last month or so, we've still been making stuff.
Here is a follow up to the college school colors Space Marines with
other school colors
.
If you remember from the first set
for my daughter,
I told you I would be tasked with more ...

03 DEC 12 : I got a commission job for some modern
terrain, so here are the WIP pics with some advice for making
your own
asphault flatboards
.
This set was designed for a convenience store and the surrounding
road set.

25 NOV 12 : A Troll Ball game is up at Wargame Vault for
purchase. This game mirrors pick-up kick-the-ball games with a very
trollish slant. Plus, the game has lots of nice 2.5D terrain and
options for violence and mayhem!

19 OCT 12 : In honor of the Judge Dredd movie (which I haven't seen
yet), here are some paint ups of various things to fit the
2000 AD Mega City
motif.

10 OCT 12 : My daughter is playing Space Hulk at college, so I
thought I would do some conversions and paint ups of GW figures to make a
set of
University of Texas @ Dallas Space Marines
.
School colors is always a good deal. Now I'm on the hook to make some more
for relatives for Christmas ... better get painting!

22 SEP 12 :
Scifi bugs
are not particularly original, but here are a set with some mods to them
to expand the variety.

22 AUG 12 : And a nice little mostly-painting conversion (with just
a bit of clay added) to make some
persons of stature.